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ByteDance

Chinese tech company behind TikTok and the Seed and Seedream models

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ByteDance is a privately held Chinese technology company headquartered in Beijing, known for TikTok, Douyin and Toutiao. Its Seed research team builds the Seed language models, Seedream image models and Seedance video models, which are served through the Volcano Engine cloud platform.

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Seed

ByteDance is a privately held Chinese technology company headquartered in Beijing, known for TikTok, Douyin and Toutiao. Its Seed research team builds the Seed language models, Seedream image models and Seedance video models, which are served through the Volcano Engine cloud platform.

Latest Seed models

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10 catalogued models

10 models · 1–10
Select models to compareModelReleasedContextInput /MOutput /MParametersTypeI/OOpenness
Seed 2.1 TurboByteDanceAugust 12, 2026262K$0.50$2.50—Texttext, image, video → textClosed
Seed 2.1 ProByteDanceJune 23, 2026256K———Texttext, image, video → textClosed
Seed 2.0 ProByteDanceFebruary 14, 2026256K———Texttext, image, video → textClosed
Seed-2.0-LiteByteDanceFebruary 14, 2026262K$0.25$2.00—Texttext, image, video → textClosed
Seed-2.0-MiniByteDanceFebruary 14, 2026262K$0.10$0.40—Texttext, image, video → textClosed
Seed 1.8ByteDanceDecember 28, 2025256K———Texttext, image → textClosed
Seed 1.6ByteDanceOctober 15, 2025256K———Texttext → textClosed
Seed 1.6 FlashByteDanceAugust 28, 2025256K———Texttext, image → textClosed
Seed-OSS-36B-InstructByteDanceAugust 20, 2025524K——36BTexttext → textOpen weights
Seed 1.6 VisionByteDanceAugust 15, 2025256K———Texttext, image → textClosed
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